Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Medal, III Class by Mayer & Sohne, in Case Newly Listed both collar tabs with silver

both collar tabs with silver and black alternating trim

measuring 46 mm (w) x 14 mm (h)

the reverse bearing a raised dedication from the SA-GRUPPENFÜHRER for the Bayerische Ostmark district reading “ICH DANKE FÜR IHRE MITHILFE AM GELINGEN DER WINTERSPORTKÄMPFE IN EISENSTEIN MARKT 1939” (“I THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP IN THE SUCCESS OF THE WINTER SPORTS GAMES IN EISENSTEIN MARKT 1939”

all of which opening with horizontal flaps with reinforced buttonholes meeting pebbled zink buttons

marked "Notified in Army Orders for December 1938 / lONDON HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE / Price 4d

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Medal, III Class by Mayer & Sohne, in Case Newly Listed both collar tabs with silver(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on October 24th, 1849. Type II (1914 1918 Issue). A Military Merit Cross III Class, of multi piece construction, in silver with red and white enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with red and white enamelled arms, with laurel leaves in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed with VERDIENST (Merit), the reverse with white enamelled arms and a white